White County Rehab: Mold Found in Resident Rooms - IL
The August 25 complaint inspection found mold-like growth on the ceilings of multiple rooms on the facility's 200 hall. Inspectors described what they saw as "black, green, furry splotches, smears, and spots" on the ceiling of a room that one resident, identified in the report as R1, had recently vacated, as well as in the rooms where two other residents, R2 and R3, were still living.
R1 said he was worried. On August 20, he told inspectors he was concerned about getting sick or developing an infection in the open wound on his foot after the mold-like substance was discovered in his previous room. He had been moved out, but R2 and R3 had not been.
R3, when asked, said he had not reported the problem to anyone personally and couldn't remember who had told him about it in the first place.
A licensed practical nurse identified as V9 said she had seen something that looked like mold in R1's old room. She had also heard from a night nurse that a similar substance had turned up inside the closet of R2's room. V9 said she reported it to the maintenance man. That maintenance man no longer works at the facility.
"I would not feel comfortable staying in a room that had something that looked like mold in it," V9 told inspectors.
The two administrators, identified as V1 and V2, walked through the rooms with inspectors on the afternoon of August 20. They looked at the ceilings. They described what they saw as mildew, but said they could not say for certain what it was. Both said they had not been aware of the problem before that moment.
The growth had been visible enough that a nurse noticed it, reported it to maintenance, and word had spread among night staff. The facility's own housekeeping and maintenance policy, dated December 2023, calls for services necessary to maintain a sanitary, orderly, and comfortable interior. The ceilings of occupied resident rooms did not meet that standard on the day inspectors arrived.
What the report does not say is when the mold-like substance first appeared, how long R2 and R3 had been sleeping beneath it, or whether anyone tested it to find out what it actually was. Inspectors noted they could not confirm its identity either. The facility's plan of correction was not included in the materials reviewed.
R1 was moved. R2 and R3, as of the inspection, were still in their rooms.
The maintenance worker who received the nurse's report is gone. The administrators said they hadn't known. And a man with an open wound on his foot spent time in a room with something black and furry growing on the ceiling, worried the whole while about what it might do to him.
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White County Rehab and Nursing in CARMI, IL was cited for violations during a health inspection on August 25, 2025.
The August 25 complaint inspection found mold-like growth on the ceilings of multiple rooms on the facility's 200 hall.
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